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Old 01-04-2014, 03:59 AM   #15
DoctorOhh
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with hi-def colour images yes, but we are talking about a black & white 6 inch display. If the epub images were optimised for the device there's no way that 8 books would be 1.5GB. For that type of book, a colour tablet or net book would be far better than an e-ink e-reader
The poster was talking about his or her experience with books in his or her library, not some hypothetically optimized book in grey scale. I agree a color tablet or netbook would be better for viewing books that size.

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I'd still like someone to quote titles & prove me wrong.
This is a pointless request. Quoting anything only proves that the books exist in the library talked about in the size talked about. It will neither prove you right or wrong.

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Also the kindle PW 2 has only 256 MB of RAM. total. make the book bigger than that & it will likely choke on it. it could not even index such a book without using a page/swap file mechanism
Good advice.
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